Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-17
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Meeting OF -" Not."nai Convection
a. Na-.y5i;e. tennessee.

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r3yfeeq.ain 20 thc riera:.hl
N.rrvu.r. November lo.--ihc Ma
tioual Wumau's Christian Temperance
tu.on mctin Na'lm>'> tnliet zoe clock
III. mornias with rlpr, scntilvcs from
almost every State aud Territory. or
fine fr.t time the Indian Icultory has
sent its representative. Mrs. llde Mcrri-
wcther. pc sident, OF Tennessee, PIE
sided. Upon the platform were seated
llrs. JUDGE Thompson, of li1lisboro.
Ohio. neither of the crusade IN 1879 ;
Pnndiia Ramabia, vice president of the
World's Noman's Christian Temperance
Union. for India, and the officers OF the
National Union The hall is decorated
with beautiful banners and flowers.
Ms Hannah Whitehall smith. lately
returned from England, opened the con
vtution with Hible-readlng on love be-
lore the browning event of the conven-
ZION. Miss Wi.lnrd's annual address. The
entire front Of the platform was lined
with the representatives. of the press,
amcnc whom were Miss Catharine Cole,
OF the View Orleans PjcdgUac, and Mrs.
II. Helen Crane, of the New York
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Perlc.t quiet prevailed while Miss
Willard delivered her annual address,
which Was frequently interrupted by APP
p'euse. In loving kindness, IN sym
ptthv. in breadth Of vision and depth oil
resolve, her message to the whlte-nDbon
women cannot be eXcelled.
At the conclusion Of the address Mrs.
Zer-lja Wallace led in prayer and then
followed the introduction of distinguish
eel visitors of Nashville and DIR. Tanner,
OF Alabama. $50.
IN, filowing is a synopsis OF Miss
Wjihrds address: Forty States and
Territories have sent 400 representatives,
f. the metropolis of southern education.
Northern lomekeepers have crossed
Mason AZ DiXou's line to clasp bands
with their SISTERS. No suror ken that
We are one nation has been given since
1864. That there are not enough anti
saloon Republicans at the North to carry
n,oAiinton in single state that IS now
st,roalur to secure il, and that there
are not enough anti sa.OOn Demo-
Gratis at the South, has been
moved in this memorable year Of oar
constitutional defeat; but there are
enough ten perar., advocates III both 10
take pos,esslon Of the Government and
oive ms national prohibition IN the party
of fine near future. which Is TO be The
nortv of God. Miss Lopse l. Smith,
nf rhode Island, one OF our eyangciishc
veterans. has proposed that we district
the nation, giving TO each SUBDIVISION
leader Of It's own. l hope her plan may
he carefully considered. But my heart
turns with tender love and blessing to-
ward the Church Of Christ and prays for
she time when her own hallowedmInistry
shall be soperseverant that outside socle-
ties shall no longer prevail when our legal
work shall broaden into Christian clll-
zenship. our educational efforts INTO
public kindergarten and industrial
schools. where hygiene shall be study
earliest and longest taught; when the
church shall welcome us to all her
connsels lay upon our heads her con
sec,otinp hands, and claim for her own
the voice that speaks for Christ. Wemust
work ont the manifest destiny of the mu-
nicin,l ballot for women as means OF
enforcing prohibitory law and empha-
/ size more strongly than before national
amendment which shall remove all legal
/ disabilities from the daughters OF the re-
nublic. believe, also, that the Prohi-
bition party should strongly state as its
ultimate aim, two amendments to the
national Constitution-frst, calling for
universal prohibition; second, enimn-
chising women and that it should care
fully study the platforms OF labor re-
formers-both knights OF Labor aud
Grangers-tbat it may incorporate prin-
ciples Of arbitration and cooperation
into its own, with any other that seem to
be based upon Christian ethicsand Chris.
tan brotherhood Among these is most
assuredly involved equal wages as well az
equal moral standards for women and
men heavier penalties for crimes against